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point is they would not have fabricated it or hallucinated it, since they were so reluctant to believe
even with the evidence they could see.
With the words “My Lord and my God!”(v. 28),Thomas declared his firm belief in the resurrec-
tion and, therefore, the deity of Jesus the Messiah and Son of God (Titus 2:13).This is the greatest
confession a person can make.Thomas’s confession functions as the fitting capstone of John’s pur-
pose in writing (vv. 30,31).

JUNE 14 Tirzah, came to Samaria, and struck Shallum
the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him;
and he reigned in his place.
15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and
2 Kings 15:1–16:20 the conspiracy which he led, indeed they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam kings of Israel. Then from Tirzah, Menahem
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15 king of Israel, Azariah the son of attacked Tiphsah, all who were there, and its
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Amaziah, king of Judah, became king. He was territory. Because they did not surrender,
sixteen years old when he became king, and therefore he attacked it. All the women there
he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His who were with child he ripped open.
mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. 17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of
3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
had done, except that the high places were not 18 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he
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removed; the people still sacrificed and burned did not depart all his days from the sins of
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incense on the high places. Then the LORD Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Is-
struck the king, so that he was a leper until the rael sin. Pul king of Assyria came against the
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day of his death; so he dwelt in an isolated land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand tal-
house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the ents of silver, that his hand might be with him
royal house, judging the people of the land. to strengthen the kingdom under his control.
6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all 20 And Menahem exacted the money from Is-
that he did, are they not written in the book of rael, from all the very wealthy, from each man
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the chronicles of the kings of Judah? So fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of As-
Azariah rested with his fathers, and they syria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and
buried him with his fathers in the City of Da- did not stay there in the land.
vid. Then Jotham his son reigned in his place. 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and
8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of all that he did, are they not written in the book
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Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So
over Israel in Samaria six months. And he did Menahem rested with his fathers. Then Peka-
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evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had hiah his son reigned in his place.
done; he did not depart from the sins of 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah,
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Is- Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king
rael sin. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh con- over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
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spired against him, and struck and killed him 24 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he
in front of the people; and he reigned in his did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the
place. son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. Then
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11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, Pekah the son of Remaliah, an officer of his,
indeed they are written in the book of the conspired against him and killed him in Sa-
chronicles of the kings of Israel. maria, in the citadel of the king’s house, along
12 This was the word of the LORD which He with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty
spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons shall sit on men of Gilead. He killed him and reigned in
the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” his place.
And so it was. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and
Shallum the son of Jabesh became king in all that he did, indeed they are written in the
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the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah; book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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and he reigned a full month in Samaria. For 27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of
Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became
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